PMO Expert

Your Impact:
At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.
People are Jacobs' greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.
In addition to the benefits you'd expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.
Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We're happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.
About the Opportunity
Nuclear Power Programmes are delivering client critical works to some of our major UK and European Projects. Our embedded teams are delivering support to Hinkley Point C (New build power station in the South West), Sizewell C (located in the South East), helping develop technologies in SMR (Small modular Reactor) capability and working towards building Poland's first Nuclear Power station.
Working in both client facing and internal roles we are delivering major programme and project management capabilities throughout the project lifecycle. We are driving to deliver safe, high quality and to time solutions by thinking innovatively and working collaboratively.
Jacobs acts as the Technical Advisor to PEJ Sp z o.o. (PEJ), which is the state-owned entity responsible for delivering Poland's nuclear power programme. The Technical Advisor's role is that of an "Owner's Engineer", which is not involved directly in any NPP design or construction activity, but rather acts as an advocate for the Client, applying technical due diligence to all aspects of the process, along with supply chain and contract management support for plant and equipment vendors engaged by the Client.
Jacobs are seeking a PMO Expert to deliver a complete Project Controls capability to both internal and external stakeholders within Jacobs, supporting the Head of Project Controls/PMO and managing, when necessary, using Jacobs processes, procedures and tools. Key responsibilities will be:

• Delivery of security, quality, environment, safety and health performance in accordance with the requirements of Jacobs SQESH policy and SQESH management systems within all areas of this roles' responsibility.
• Implementing best practice project planning policy, processes and procedures on projects.
  Accurately identifying, controlling and forecasting the time scales and resource requirements of projects to minimise the likelihood of time overruns
• Co-ordinating the flow of information to ensure that interfaces both within projects are effectively managed to optimise efficiencies.
• Developing and incorporating critical path, resource and programme risk analysis into resource allocations and the monitoring and reporting of progress against that planned.
• Progressing programmes, monitoring and reporting on project performance, highlighting deviations, providing early warnings and
  identifying and presenting project slippage recovery strategies.
• Summarising data through the programme hierarchy from detail to summary levels.
• Developing and managing a database to capture and identify work rate norms and trends, earned value and performance indicators.
• Responding to customer feedback on planning performance.

Here's What You'll Need:

• Good technical skills including problem solving and decision making.
• Aptitude for presentation of data for analysis and review.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills to ensure effective communication to all levels to both internal and external personnel.
• Familiarity with standard office software including Project, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio and Outlook.
• Competence with proprietary planning software (ideally Primavera P6).
• Good understanding of technical standards and regulatory requirements for the design and construction appropriate to both conventional and hazardous environments.
• Knowledge and use of earned value techniques.
• Understanding of the inter-relationships of multidiscipline design activities and their impact onto procurement and construction activities.
• Knowledge of construction contracts such as NEC Contract is desirable.

Our Culture
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